Like nearly every child, Owen Miller dreamed he would someday play professional baseball.

His father Tom showed him the basics of the game when he was young. Miller played tee ball at 4 years old and then played with older children. Tom coached his son’s Little League team in Fredonia.

“As long as I can remember, he has had a ball and bat in his hands,” his father said. “We also spent a lot of time at the park on our own and had a batting screen in the basement where he also hit off the tee and did soft toss throughout the winter months.”

Port Washington aldermen on Tuesday agreed to pay Ansay Development as much as $330,000 to help pay for remediation and demolition on the former Victor’s property near the city’s lakefront.

A developer’s agreement between the city and Ansay that outlined the terms of the development incentive through the city’s tax incremental financing district was approved on a 5-1 vote, with Ald. Mike Gasper dissenting.

Traffic of a different type will be found throughout downtown Port Washington Wednesday, June 27, as the third annual Race the Harbor event moves to the heart of the city.

The race — the seventh leg in the 11-day Tour of America’s Dairyland bike race series — had been held on the southeast side of the city in the past.

“This is an effort to bring the race closer to downtown and engage the merchants and residents,” Tammy Thompson-Oreskovic of ZuZu Pedals, a race organizer, said. “They can just open their doors and the race is there.”

A 63-year-old man who was accused of wielding a knife while chasing and threatening to kill two people on Port Washington’s lakefront in October 2017 was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect last week.

Town of Port Washington officials have repeatedly called the well-traveled section of Northwoods Road between Highway 33 and Hillcrest Road the worst road in the township С but that title won’t apply any more. Crews from Payne & Dolan on Monday began an expected four-day project to repair the road. They pulverized the existing pavement, then were expected to spend a couple days grading and compacting the base before paving the road at an estimated cost of $98,355.

It wasn’t the color they were looking for, but Cedar Grove-Belgium’s soccer players still came home with medals around their necks – along with bumps, bruises and aches – from the Division 4 state soccer final at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee on Saturday.

The Rockets lost a heartbreaking physical battle, 2-1, to Kenosha St. Joseph’s, after the Lancers scored their second goal in the final 90 seconds.

“We really shocked the world. I didn’t think we would make it this far,” senior co-captain Jessica Rose said.

Another first is coming up for the Cedar Grove-Belgium girls’ soccer team.

After qualifying for state for the first time in the program’s history, the Rockets dominated their Division 4 semifinal opponent Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld and won, 1-0. They will play for their first state title at 4:30 p.m. Saturday against Kenosha St. Joseph at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee.

The Rockets scored 97 seconds into the game on a gorgeous shot by Amy TenHaken.